Rural-Urban Contradiction In The Development Of Puebla'S Metropolitan Region: The Missing Strategy

This research, based on a territorial approach to development, defines its study object as the existing contradiction in territorial planning carried out in Puebla's metropolitan region; we attempt to sustain the thesis that these policies have actually been designed for territorial restructuring, in an unbalancing sense of the term, which has made the contradiction between the city and its rural territories more acute. We suggest some methodological elements that include this spatial element, notably segregated by state development policies since a little more than 30 years ago. The importance of the historical perspective in Puebla's metropolitan region is analyzed, as a relevant empirical reference, as well as the role of the central actors in the problematic being studied.